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Posted 02 June 2005 - 03:00 PM

I am still using the old drive as the startup, the new drive is the slave.

I didn't change any software.

To make the new drive work I made a single partition with fdisk in fat 32,

then formatted.

The drive is regognized, works and saves data.

But the thing is, My pc will not startup in normal mode anymore from the old drive which is the startup. And before I installed the new slave, it was working fine.

It only starts up in safe mode now.

Heres how it crashes:

It posts, checks, then eventually gets to the part when the computer displays the windows asking for your login information.

Immeadiately after passing that stage, it dumps with a fatal error everytime. Can't get past there.

But heres the thing, I did not change any software at at all.

It was working well, then I installed a new hard drive as the slave. Now windows normal mode wont start up.

Could this be an issue about cable select? I am not currently using it because the drive is already recognized and works as it is.

So in summary, the new drive was installed as the slave.

The old drive which is still the startup drive now will not startup.

It fatal errors everytime I get right past the login screen.

I appreciate any advice about this.

Thanks.

P.S. the strange thing is, when i disconnect the new drive, the system will boot fine in normal mode. If i connect it again, then it give me the same fatal error every time right after the login screen. And, in safe mode, boths drive will work.

Murray S.

Posted 03 June 2005 - 04:45 PM

bdlt

Posted 03 June 2005 - 04:49 PM

bdlt

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I'm not too knowledgable in this area, but it sounds like this might be a size issue with win98. I'm not sure of the win98 limitations, but 80 GB may be too large. Perhaps one of our experts can explain further, or suggest some other course of action.

Murray S.

Posted 03 June 2005 - 04:58 PM

peterm

Posted 03 June 2005 - 07:04 PM

peterm

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3,173 posts

instead of cable select did you change the jumpers on the 1st drive to say it was a master with a slave. Did you also change the jumper on the second drive to say it was a slave drive?.
If yes to this
then have you tried setting up
the drive in cmos instead of using auto detect?